Key Terms
This changed France from an absolute monarchy into a republic.
What is the French Revolution?
Loyalty to your family or to the belief that animals must be protected are examples of this type of loyalty.
What is a non-nationalist loyalty?
This oath taken by members of the Third Estate, vowing not to disband until they had created a new constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
Conditions, such as war and poverty, that drive people away from a place.
What are push factors?
Settling of a dispute. Bringing two people, or groups, closer together.
What is reconciliation?
Stories that are used to create a sense of nation- even if they are inaccurate.
What is a myth?
These consequences may arise when an individual must choose one loyalty over another. (Name at least two)
What is:
Alienation, Risk losing part of their identity, etc
When a person struggles to balance loyalty between two or more competing identities, they experience this type of loyalty conflict.
What is a contending loyalty?
This prison was stormed on July 14, 1789, marking the symbolic start of the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
What are pull factors?
This term refers to the adjustment of workplace or institutional practices to allow for religious or cultural needs to be met (as long as they don't violate the rights of others).
What is reasonable accommodation?
This legal document forms the foundation of Canada's legal and political system, outlining the core laws that define the nation and how it will be governed.
What is the constitution?
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples identified this as the reason for “the most intense conflicts between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.”
What are land claims?
The Oil Sands in Alberta are a great example of these contending loyalties.
What are Regional and National loyalties?
This radical political group, led by Maximilien Robespierre, was responsible for the Reign of Terror.
Who were the Jacobins?
A system of ideas or a way of thinking.
What is an ideology?
This idea suggests that a group of people with common characteristics such as language, religion, or culture should have the right to form their own nation and govern themselves.
What is self-determination?
This type of government inquiry, often headed by a government official, is created to investigate important social, political, or economic issues in Canada.
What is a Royal Commission?
During the 1980s and 90s, those who aligned with this group were loyal to the idea of a united Canada, despite the growing separatist sentiment in Quebec.
Who were the Federalists?
The economic struggles that fuelled the French Revolution were worsened by France's involvement in this war across the Atlantic.
What is the American Revolution?
An actual or hypothetical agreement among individuals forming an organized society to cooperate for social benefits.
What is a social contract?
A deep devotion to one's nation, sometimes leading to conflict with groups, is known as this.
What is Nationalism?
This term refers to the shared beliefs, values, and norms that unite individuals within a society or group.
What is collective consciousness?
When Mohawk people blockaded roads to stop the building of a golf course.
What is the Oka Crisis?
The case of the Wilson Hutterite Colony is an example of what type of loyalty?
What is religious loyalty?
This period of extreme violence (1793-1794) saw thousands executed as "enemies of the revolution."
What is the Reign of Terror?
The idea that all men are endowed with certain unalienable rights (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness).
What are natural rights?